In case you missed the University of Arizona Wildcats 74-51 demolition of the Harvard Crimson on Saturday, here's the one highlight you absolutely need to see:

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• A victory dance for the ages.

That young man is 21-year-old Jordan Ingram, an accounting junior and trombone player with the UA's Pride of Arizona Marching Band and Pep Band. We were able to fit into his busy schedule (the pep band is due to leave for Los Angeles tomorrow in preparation to cheer on UA basketball against Ohio State University on Thursday, March 28) and chat with him via text message. Below is the transcript, edited for spelling and clarity:

Tucson Weekly: So what's it been like getting all of this attention over the past few days?

Jordan Ingram: It's been crazy. I had 100 notifications on Facebook when I got back [from Utah, where UA played in the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament].

TW: All from people saying they saw you on TV, or from the internet?

JI: It was a mixture of both. All my friends in pep band showed me internet postings, such as the Washington Post, after the game.

TW: How long have you been with the pep band? You also march with the Pride, right? If I remember right, you have to be involved with both.

JI: I have been in pep band for two years. I missed the cut my freshman year. And yes, I'm in the Pride and have been for three years, and yes, you must do both in order to be in pep band.

TW: OK, cool. So, what kicked off the dancing? Is it something you always do after wins?

JI: It's something I always do, period! If the music is playing, you can always count on me shaking it!

TW: That might be my favorite quote ever. So, what do you plan to do if/when UA beats OSU this Thursday? The pressure's on now, what with all of the attention you've gotten.

JI: I know, man. I've gotta come up with some new moves.

TW: No need to fix what isn't broken, Jordan. I wont' take up too much more of your time, since you've gotta prep for the trip out tomorrow. Any final thoughts?

JI: Bear Down, Arizona, and beat the Buckeyes!

TW: Right on. Thanks for your time, Jordan. Have a great trip, and enjoy the Sweet Sixteen.

JI: No problem, and thank you for your time!

We'll be following along with Jordan as the tournament rolls on, and we'll be watching out for him on Thursday, when the Wildcats take on Ohio State on Thursday. The opening tip is at 4:47 p.m. — and if you think that TVs and computer monitors around the Old Pueblo won't be tuned to that, you're insane.

And possibly the best celebration GIF I've ever seen.

From Saturday's 74-51 Arizona Wildcats victory over Harvard:

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• I wish to buy this man a beverage.

Really, the only way to respond to that GIF is with yet another GIF:

Nice moves, friend. See you in the Sweet Sixteen.

(h/t: Bleacher Report)

This is because, undoubtedly, several thousand Arizona basketball fans are already drawing up plans to drive or fly to Los Angeles for the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament now that the Wildcats have locked up a spot in the West Regional semifinals at the Staples Center.

Arizona (27-7) had no problems whatsoever with Harvard on Saturday, whooping those soon-to-be CEOs 74-51 in the third round in Salt Lake City. The victory puts the sixth-seeded Wildcats in line for a matchup against either Iowa State or Ohio State, who play Sunday.

Notable from today's convincing victory: Mark Lyons, who had 27 points, became the first player in NCAA history to reach the Sweet 16 in back-to-back seasons, but with different schools. He made it in 2012 with Xavier before transferring thanks to the NCAA's generous graduate student transfer rule.

Something else to prepare for: droves of T-shirt stands on every corner in Tucson. Get your knockoff gear now!

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• Pre-race yoga from last year's Distance Classic

If you're looking for something to do Sunday, you might try getting off the couch and pounding some pavement for a good cause in the Arizona Distance Classic in Oro Valley.

Touted as the most scenic race event in Arizona, the Distance Classic winds through the Catalina Mountain foothills and includes something for pretty much everyone: a short kids run (for ages 9-14) sponsored by Oro Valley Parks and Recreation, 5k run/walk sponsored by Northwest Medical Center, quarter and half marathons and a 1 mile Champions Walk (for folks 65 and older). There is also a wheelchair division.

The race benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a non-profit that aims to fund a search for cures for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma; the Angola project, a local non-profit that is raising money to build a school in Angola; and the Christina-Taylor Green Foundation, which has given more than $250,000 mostly to local charities including Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona and Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson.

Every entrant gets a shirt — even in the kid's run, which only costs $5 — and a finisher's medal. A VIP upgrade entitles you to free pre-race breakfast and a race jacket in addition to the shirt. There will be free yoga and stretching before the race and free massages and snacks at the finish, and numerous vendors will be on hand for the race day expo. This is the ninth year for the USA Track and Field sanctioned race, which draws more than 2,000 participants.

If you're into celebrity sighting, you might look for Jessica Delfs, a Tucsonan who lost more than 200 pounds after becoming a contestant on NBC's The Biggest Loser. She's running the quarter marathon.

Here's the schedule and prices - there is no race-day registration:

6 a.m. - Stretch and yoga time (free). Limber up before you run. You'll thank yourself.

6:55 a.m. - Wheelchair half marathon ($80 through March 21; $85 thereafter)

7 a.m. - Half marathon ($80 through March 21; $85 thereafter)

7 a.m. - Quarter marathon ($55 through March 21, $65 thereafter)

7:15 a.m. - 5k run/walk ($45 through March 21; $50 thereafter)

10 a.m. - Kids fun run for ages 14 and under ($5; race-day registration until 8 a.m.)

All divisions start and end at Ventana Medical Systems, 1910 Innovation Park Drive in Oro Valley. For more information, see www.ArizonaDistanceClassic.com.

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Another Kidical Mass is on tap for this weekend. According to organizers, you don't have to have kids to join the ride, but you do have to have fun. Check out the details here.

Okay, Wildcat fans: if you're feeling a weird sense of deja vu right now, that's understandable. This is how you all felt on Jan. 1, 2000.

All the worry and agida surrounding Arizona's first-round NCAA tournament game against Belmont felt very similar to the fear and trepidation associated with Y2K: in other words, a waste of time.

Sixth-seeded Arizona (26-7) played one of its best games of the season Thursday evening, easily beating No. 11 Belmont 81-64 at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

Now, instead of all that angst, Wildcat fans are suddenly feeling giddy about the prospects of a Sweet Sixteen trip after seeing Harvard upset New Mexico in the late game Thursday.

Arizona and Harvard (20-9), which had never won an NCAA tourney game before this one, will play at 3:10 p.m. Saturday in Salt Lake City.

Against Belmont (26-7), Arizona dominated in nearly every facet of the game, most notably on the boards, finishing unofficially (read: via Yahoo! box score stats) with a 42-15 rebounding edge. Combine that with the UA shooting 57 percent overall and 53 percent from three-point range, and the game wasn't ever in doubt much.

Now, aren't you feeling silly about how much time was spent working on your will the last few days?

Oh, and bring on the Crimson. Which, according to my Twitter pals, is the Arizona of the Northeast.

At least, that's according to the folks at Foreign Policy, who wrote this piece to establish the idea that the hatred of college basketball superpower Duke University is akin to hating America itself.

No, seriously:

Americans like to think they are Butler, the scrappy unheralded Midwestern underdogs one shot away from a miracle. But let's be real. The United States is a global superpower, since 1990 the unipolar hegemon atop the global order. In the Middle East it is the imperial hub, a status quo power with deep security and military alliances with almost every regime and global sanctions against the few remaining "rogues." When the world looks at the United States, it doesn't see Butler. It sees Duke.

Despite their country's overwhelming global dominance, Americans have struggled to comprehend the depth and resilience of hostile attitudes and negative perceptions. In a 2008 survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Americans rated restoring their country's global standing above any other national priority — including combating terrorism and protecting jobs. The whole tenor of the "why do they hate us" punditry meme suggests just how much this global distaste upsets Americans. But if Americans want to understand the resilience of anti-Americanism, they could do worse than to examine their feelings about Duke.

Conventional explanations of anti-Dukism mirror those of anti-Americanism. Some see it as a natural outgrowth of dominance, attracting the incomprehension and resentment of the less fortunate. Everyone hates Mr. Big. But this is not satisfying. Sure, the Blue Devils have been dominant, with their four national championships, 15 Final Four appearances, 11 national players of the year, and the best winning percentage in tournament history. But other teams have been as dominant over as extended a period without inspiring such hatred: who loses sleep over Kentucky, Connecticut, North Carolina, or even UCLA?

Duke's dominance has also not been nearly as comprehensive as this account would suggest. Nor, one might argue, has America's. Both only rose to this position in 1990. During the Cold War, the United States was always checked by its superpower peer competitor, and Duke had memories of Mike Gminski. For the United States, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany within NATO, and the United Nations' blessing for the liberation of Kuwait established it as the sole global superpower. Duke emerged in the mid-1980s (morning in America!), but only reached the top by beating the mighty UNLV "Running Rebels" and the Kansas Jayhawks in the 1991 Final Four for its first championship, and then repeating the next year, along the way defeating Kentucky in perhaps the greatest college basketball game ever. This was peak Laettner, the foundational moment for anti-Dukism.

This...is actually a fairly solid argument. I hate to say it, but this seems about right. We're the superpower that no one likes. People cheer for our failures and gripe about our successes. We have hyper-competitive leadership that no one seems to like until they do something great that we can piggyback upon as a nation (the Olympics ringing a bell, anyone?). And all the people who are thrust into the spotlight are generally unlikable Caucasian dudes.

Check out the whole piece over at Foreign Policy. And try to refrain from getting sick while you think about it.

We give Arizona State University a lot of crap over here — partially because of fierce independence Tucson exhibits against our neighbors in the Valley of the Sun, partially because of the huge in-state college rivalry that attracts national sponsors, and partially because ASU fans get grumpy when we make fun of their school.

But Anthony Robles, the one-legged wrestler who completely conquered his sport en route to an undefeated senior campaign, capped off by a national championship, is one of the better stories to come out of Tempe.

Sports blog Deadspin has a great profile of Robles, delving into his back story, the development of his technique and Robles' potential future in the sport.

From Deadspin:

The critical thing about the scramble is that, at the college level and beyond, it is almost entirely reflexive, moving far too fast to be thought through. Scrambling wrestlers rely on muscle memory, developed through extensive repetition and retained for years. (Hence the theatrics in the audience at many wrestling meets, where former competitors jerk their legs, claw the air, and otherwise try to gesticulate their way free of the fracas before them.) Occasionally, a wrestler exerts some conscious control as he scrambles, deliberately trying something new and counter-instinctual. This is usually the point at which he loses the scramble.

Wrestlers scrambling against Robles regularly reached for the leg that wasn't there, the way people who learned to drive on a manual transmission car sometimes grab for a phantom gear stick in an automatic. This was especially true when opponents tried to "turn the corner" clockwise, or slip past Robles's right side to complete a take-down. With no right ankle to catch hold of, they lacked the anchor they needed to finish their attack. A number of other moves were also literally out of reach, including the navy ride, the western ride, and some cradles. One of the most popular and effective maneuvers for the man on top, known simply as "legs," involves lacing one leg through the bottom man's same-side leg and turning it outward at the hip. Needless to say, there is no "legs" without legs.

Whenever an opponent attempted to gain purchase on a part of Robles that does not exist, muscle memory failed him. It was a bewildering and anxiety-provoking moment. "A lot of the stuff you're used to doing on a more able-bodied wrestler, you can't do," Matthew Snyder, Robles's first-round victim at the 2011 championships, told me. "You're looking for the leg and it's just not there." When this happened repeatedly, as it did for anyone who hadn't trained with a one-legged wrestler before facing Robles, frustration, confusion—and ultimately demoralization—set in. This was a fatal combination. No wrestler can win with despondency in his heart, at least not against a foe as formidable as Robles.

I've saved you all the trouble, folks: it's a 770-mile drive from McKale Center to the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, where Arizona faces Belmont Thursday in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

The Wildcats (25-7) earned a No. 6 seed in the West Region, while Belmont (26-6) earned a No. 11 seed by virtue of winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament last weekend.

For those who know little about Belmont — don't feel bad, most people don't — the Bruins are in the NCAA tournament for the sixth time in the last eight seasons. The previous five visits were by winning the Atlantic Sun Conference, but this year they moved into the OVC and took it down on the first try.

Belmont's wins this year include ones over Stanford and Oral Roberts (teams Arizona beat this year) and fellow 2013 NCAA qualifiers Middle Tennessee State and South Dakota State.

If Arizona were to get past Belmont on Thursday (game time is 4:20 p.m., and it will be shown on TNT) it is likely the Wildcats would face an old nemesis: New Mexico. The Lobos (29-5) are the No. 3 seed after winning the Mountain West title, and they face No. 14 Harvard on Thursday.

Arizona was one of five Pac-12 Conference teams to make the tourney, but collectively the league got bitch-slapped in terms of seeding. Oregon, which beat UCLA for the conference title Saturday night in Las Vegas, only got a No. 12 seed. That's the same seed that California got — though the Golden Bears amazingly got a near-home game by playing No. 5 UNLV in San Jose — while Colorado got a No. 10 seed and UCLA got a No. 6 seed.

Other seedings and pairings of interest for Tucsonans: Josh Pastner's Memphis team, after winning another Conference USA title, got a No. 6 seed, while UA transfer Momo Jones' Iona Gaels are a No. 15 seed after winning the MAAC championship.

The 68-team tournament gets underway in earnest on Tuesday when a pair of so-called 'First Four' games are held in Dayton: Middle Tennessee State plays St. Mary's and Liberty faces North Carolina A&T.

This story is a bit on the old side, but Yahoo! Sports took a look at Arizona's role as one of Major League Baseball's two Spring Training hubs (not to mention that it's been the site of games in the international World Baseball Classic), hosting baseball players from around the world, during a time when tempers have flared regarding immigration laws and reform.

American-born San Francisco Giants closer Sergio Romo, currently pitching for Mexico in the WBC, gets it — his MLB club trains in Scottsdale, under the jurisdiction of the "beloved" Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And he's got first hand experience with immigration issues in this state. From Yahoo!:

"I've been pulled over numerous times, driving a nice car," said Sergio Romo, the closer for the San Francisco Giants as well as the Mexican WBC outfit. "The first question is: What's your citizenship? The second question: Is this your car? And then: What do you do for a living? And it's like, 'Bro, you're Mexican just like me.' 'Ah, but I was born here.' And I say, 'So was I.' "

The story is an interesting profile of both Romo, born to Mexican parents in California and made waves for wearing a shirt reading "I Just Look Illegal" during a World Series victory parade, and Marco Estrada, a Mexican national who came across the border with his mother and is waiting on American citizenship. It's also a preview of tonight's last week's game between the United States and Mexico at Phoenix's Chase Field. Again, from Yahoo!:

When the Mexicans play the Americans on Friday, the stands will be a mish-mash of red, white and blue interlocked with red, white and green. It's the sort of game that should be appreciated more for the underdog-vs.-favorite bent than any sociopolitical issues, and yet it can't be, not when Arizona finds itself in the news on seemingly a daily basis, the latest coming when federal officials less than a week ago released more than 300 of the nearly 2,600 people at Arizona immigration detention centers, more governmental saber-rattling in a battle that filters down in unfortunate ways.

"It's just life in general," Romo said. "There are rules and laws we all have to abide by, and certain that we won't always accept or agree with. With due time, I think certain things will fly straight — or straighter.

My one qualm with the piece? A line introducing tonight's last week's game that suggests that Mexicans are more disliked here than in any other state — though, truth be told, that may just be because I can't stand the idea of living in a state that's known as much for laws that are considered racist towards a particular group as it is the Grand-goddamn-Canyon.

Correction: The game between Mexico and the United States took place last Friday, March 8. Mexico won, 5-2. My sincere apologies for the error.